In the age of mobile telephones and internet the humble landline has been forgotten. But there is still at least one big advantage of having a landline phone. This advantage is being able to use 0800 numbers.
0800 numbers have been around for many, many years and are favoured by many companies who want to make it simple for their customers to get in contact with them. These types of numbers are free phone, which means that there is no cost to phone them.
Well, certainly no cost from a landline phone that is. You may have noticed if you have ever phoned 0800 numbers from your mobile that you get a message saying that you will be charged for the call. This can be fine if you are on a contract phone with plenty of free minutes (where the plan includes calls to 0800 numbers but there are not many of these) and do not intend to be on the call for that long.
For example, you may want to phone a company that lets you hire a DVD or a computer game, and they have a free phone number for you to use. This company could have a setup which means that your call will last for 5 minutes or so, because they need to get all of the necessary details from you to send out the products.
Within the above example you can see that using a mobile phone to make the call could end up being rather costly. For this reason it pays to use a landline phone (even public telephone boxes are free to phone 0800 numbers!) to make that call instead of incurring a cost when you don't need to.
